Ben Weinstein-Raun <r...@benwr.net> writes:
> Hello! I'm fairly new to using Guix System, and I have a lot of questions. > > One is: Is it possible to run a shepherd user service at system start, > rather than at login? > > My guess is that this is at least possible, by defining a system-level > service that starts a shepherd for each user. Would that work? > > Anyone have tips on how to go about building this, if so? Especially: > What's the easiest way to ensure that a guix service knows the list of > users-with-login-shells on the system? And easiest way to run a > `shepherd` instance as each such user on startup? I'm working on writing > a service definition, but as this is my first from-scratch service (guix > or shepherd), and one of my first lisp projects since reading SICP 15 > years ago, it's slow going (even with the reference manual and source > code of other services). > > > And, of course, is there a simpler way? > > > (I also asked this question on the r/guix subreddit, but haven't heard > anything yet, and figured I'd ask here too) Not a direct answer, but this seems similar to systemd's linger functionality, that might be worth taking a look at.
